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Holiday aircraft
I know that I am a few days late, but I am a slow builder. In this case, I ran into a small problem. I assembled the Fiddlers Green St Paddys Day aircraft. After I had glued everything except the prop, I realized that I was going to need more nose weight to stabilize the aircraft on the nose wheel. My solution was to put very fine bird shot in the nose cone and use an antique pocket watch winding stem for the propeller shaft. The prop is a bit further out front than would be normal for a static model, but in a way, it makes it look like a miniature flying model. I wasn't looking for scale anyway, it was just taking the place of a card for my wife. Anyway, here is the result. If anyone else has holiday stuff (any holiday), please feel free to showcase them here. There is no pride of authorship on this thread (actually, with this build, there is no pride at all)
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Here is one that I gave my wife on Valentines Day. The lettering on the wing is not initials; it's code. All my kids are over 50 and they have not cracked it, so don't even try.
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Does the wife like planes?
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She will not fly, but she does enjoy air shows and static displays. She refers to the ones that I have built for her as "her fleet". Before we were married, and I was in flight training in N3Ns at the Naval Academy, I could never tell her ahead of time, when I was going to be in the air. She would be a nervous wreak until I called her after the flight.
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